ABC’s Ross: DC Madam’s List Includes White House & Pentagon Officials, Prominent Lawyers

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ABC’s Ross: DC Madam’s List Includes White House & Pentagon Officials, Prominent Lawyers

ABC News’ Brian Ross revealed tonight that the list of customers of an alleged Washington-based prostitution service includes White House and Pentagon officials as well as prominent attorneys.

“There are thousands of names, tens of thousands of phone numbers,” Ross said. “And there are people there at the Pentagon, lobbyists, others at the White House, prominent lawyers — a long, long list.” Ross added that the women who worked for the service, potentially as prostitutes, “include university professors, legal secretaries, scientists, military officers.”

On Friday, Ross broke the news that U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Randall Tobias had frequented the escort service. Ross added new details to that story tonight, recounting how he asked Tobias in a telephone interview “if he knew any of the young women, their names. He said he didn’t remember them at all. He said it was like ordering pizza.”

Watch it:

UPDATE: The Washington Post carries a front-page profile of the DC Madam, Deborah Jeane Palfrey, in Sunday’s paper. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/28/AR2007042801192.html?nav=rss_politics

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http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/28/ross-white-house-madam/